Coupon holder



Aug., Mg 45 s. HEILBRUNN ET AL COUPON HOLDER Filed Sept. 1l,v 1942 ATTORNEY M M M Q Full T MDQQ Patented Aug. 14, 1945 UNITED-STATE vatraer@V COUPON HOLDER f/Simoin Heilbrunnand Alexander F. Kaptullen Chicago, Ill.; said Kaptuller assignor to said Heilbrmm AApplication September 11, 1942, Serial No. 457,996'l v v (Cl. l93-1)` l2 Claims.

l This invention relates to improvements incoupon holders and methods for producing the same, the holder of the present invention .being particularly applicable for coupons of a type widely utilized by manufacturing establishments as a means for determining and recording vwork accomplished by employees, and by which means wages are computed.

The coupons or tickets referred to rgenerally consist of elongated strips of stiff paper bearing suitable printed data, as, for example, a job or lot number and a brief description of the work to be done. The workman is given oneor more of these coupons with each job and at the end of a working period he presents his coupons and receives a wage as determined thereby. It is customary to provide the workman with a' holder wherein the coupons maybe conveniently accumulated and protected against loss, and whereby they maybe presented in an orderly arrangement that facilitates handling and computation of Wages due.

The principal object of the present invention is `to provide an improved coupon holderof this character, the improvements being chiefly dii rected to economy of manufacture such that the holders can be furnished at a cost suliiciently low torender it practical to destroy them along with the coupons contained therein after the units have been turned in for payment. This saves the time otherwise required in removing the coupons from the holders to enable the latter to `be used again, and provides greater certainty that all of the redeemed coupons will be destroyed.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear from the following description and accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is a diagrammatic illustration showing the steps in the method of producing the coupon holder of our invention;

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View o'f the paper stock as it appears following embossing and scoring operations thereon, together with the embossing and scoring rollers shown generally, the section being taken at line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view through the paper stock taken at line 3-3 of Fig. 1, and showing a preferred manner of applying adhesive to certain embossed areas of the stock;

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a coupon holder made in accordance with our invention, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged longitudinal sectional lview taken at line 5-5 of Fig. 4..

Referring now by characters of reference to the drawing and particularly to Fig. 4, our improved coupon holder comprises an elongated strip of relatively stili paper or light cardboard,the marginal portions B at theopposite sides thereof being folded-over upon the body 1 of the strip and secured thereto by means of a suitable adhesive which is confined to definite areas regularly spaced along vthe folded margin.` The aforesaid bonded areas, designated B, are relatively narrow and extend at right angles to the side margins of the holder. ed areas partition the space between the folded margins 6 and body portion 'l and form the sides of individual compartments or pockets of width slightly greater-than that of the coupons, designated 9, which they are intended to receive.-

The partitions I0 defining the sidesof .the individual coupon compartments are formed as elongated embossments in the upper and lower plies of the folded margin. The glue is confined Ywithin the recess formed in the under surface of the upper ply, which recess aids in preventing the glue from spreading to the adjacentV areas which would have theundesirable effect-of reducing the width of the compartments. The

-tongue and groove formation constituted by the intertting embossments materially `Vincreases the strength ofthe partitioning bond. Another important advantage of the described construction is that the embossments provide both visual and tactual delineation of the compartments which greatly facilitates the introduction of' coupons therein.

It will thus appear that' the folded vmarginal portions ofthe sheet stock provide the upper and lower walls of the compartments, the embossed portions form the sides and the folded edge forms closed outer ends thereof. Accordingly,l a coupon extending into a compartment is confined at its side edges as well as its top and bottom between integral portions of the paper stock. An advantage of the described construction from the standpoint of strength of the partitioning junctions is that any lateral movement of the coupon is met and resisted by an embossed surface of the sheet stock, and not merely by a film of adhesive which is readily disruptible to permit separation of the surfaces.

In its final form the holder is folded upon itself on a transverse medial fold line, indicated at H, Fig. 4, which affords additional protection to the coupons and gives the holderL the general appearance of a book.

The holders may be produced rapidly and economically in the manner illustrated rgraphically in Fig. 1. In accordance With this Dre- As will appear, the bondl ferred method paper stock of suitable width is fed from a supply roll to and between a pair of coacting embossing and scoring rollers of the Vgeneral character illustrated in Fig. 2. The upper roller I2 thereof has an annular series of elongated .fbosses I3 located adjacent its ends. Suitably spaced inwardly from the bosses I3 are annular series of elongated depressions I4, each of which is in alignment with one of the bosses I3 and which corresponds thereto in all respects. Located centrally between the bosses I3 and depressions I4 is an annular scoring rib I5.

The

lower roller I6 is provided near its ends .with

elongated depressions II that correspond and coact with the bosses I3 of the upper roller, Ibosses* I8 that correspond and coact with the` depres'- sions I4 of the upper roller, and grooves I9 that correspond and coact with the scoring rib's I5 of the upper roller. Accordingly as the paper stock passes between the rollers I2 and I6 it has im' pressed therein an outer series of elongatedde, pressions 20, an inner series ofelongated bosses 2 I, and a scoreline `22 midway therebetween, A.,

.The embossed and scored stock next passes under a pair of wheels 23 which function to apply a predetermined amount of glue or other suitable adhesive to the upper surfaces of the bosses 2|. 'I he wheels 23 are desirably of the character `of sprocket wheels havingl teeth 24 whose outer surfaces are substantially coextensive with the upper surfaces of the bosses 2|., The teeth 2 4 receiveadhesive from feeding rollers 25, bearins thereagainst, which extend into a supply bath (not shown). Adjustable scraper blades (not shown) coact with the adhesive feeding rollers v 25 and serve to regulate the thicknessof the adhesive lm on the feeding rollersandhence the amount of adhesive which is ultimately deposited 4on thelupper surfaces of the bosses 2|, Inthis manner the amount of adhesive provided to form the. partitioning bonds is strictly controlled and limited so that there ispo excessv thereof to escape from the recesses. A

- The stock is next passed through suitable folding and pressing guide slots (not showntwhich operate to Afold the outer margins of vthe stock on the previously formed fold lines 22, such that `depressions 20 exactly register with and receive :therein the adhesivecoated bosses 2I ,then press the mated surfaces together in the formationof ,a strongrbond. If desired, the thusly formed stock may lthen be :introduced into suitable printing mechanism for reception of appropriateindici-a, and, nally, is

passed through a shearing device. not shown, which cuts the theretofore continuous strip into units of required length. As will be understood the various operating organizations, viz., the enibossing and scoring rollers, the adhesive wheels, the printing mechanism and the shearing device are geared together and their operations properly synchronized with the advancing strip.

From the foregoing explanation of lour invention it will appear that We provide an improved coupon holder that can be manufactured cheaply and economically by the described method, and

`which in all respects is highly suitable for its intended purpose. While we have described our invention as embodied in a coupon holder and its method of manufacture, it will be understood that our invention may be utilized in the fabrica.- tionof other products of similar nature, and that; certain changes may be made in the method and means' herein described Without departing from the spirit and full intendment of the invention, except as fairly construed to be outside the S0096 as defined by the appended claims.,

We claim: A 1. The herein described method for producing a coupon hol-der, comprising forming a series of paired, laterally spaced emb'ossments in a sheet of fibrous material such that Ithe embossments of each pair are of relatively reversed form, thereafter applying adhesive to one embossment of eaQhPair. the adhesive being strictly confined to the embossment, then folding the sheet. on a line centrally between the paired v embossments .to cause the embossrnents at one side of the fold line to enter and adhere to the embossments on the opposite side of the fold line.

2. The herein described method for producing a coupon holder comprising, rst forming parallel rows of embossments in a sheet of brous material. said embossments being elongated transversely to the direction of the rows, and theembos's'ments of one row being relatively `reversed in formwithrespect to those of the other row whereby `the emhossments of one row present projectionsjand those of the other row present depressions on the sheet surface, thereafter applying adhesive to the embossments of one row yso yas to strictly confine the adhesive thereto, then folding the sheet on aline parallel with and centrally between the rows to cause the embossments ofonerow to enter and adhere to the embossments or the other row.

SIMONHEIIBRUNN. ALEXANDER F. KAPIULLER. 

